The jungle of modern days
Concrete species with the mist of the hot sun's rays
Vines of wires creep its path
Inside lurks its dark deadly mark
Drains life source of freedom
Home to envious souls
Lord of cruelty and destructions
Guardian of famine and grief
Covers that little tint of life
From those unfortunate spirits
Whose lifetime clings on the little lush
Where real life thrives
Hopeful for the next cycle
When everything ends for them to begin
Abundance and balance on its fists
Children of my children will live.
Thursday, June 23, 2011
The Wine-Bowl in the Table and the Bowls of the Muses
What could be fun in studying new things and in going to school? A friend of mine once posted in his shout out that age is inevitable and that as we go old we gain knowledge. Therefore, we learn so many things here on earth as we grow old. Looking age at a good perspective for it is in knowledge we find contentment and happiness (love you Paul for this, my friend).
But some would say, "Enough about going to school". Many would surely like to have fun only and leave knowledge aside. Well, when I was still an undergraduate student I gained wisdom and had fun both at the same time. Even up to this very moment, I still love acquiring knowledge (hence I enrolled back to school) and still have some fun (I still drink and hang out with my friends) at the same time. I clearly remember moments with my friends everytime we drink. When people will get tipsy a little an argument is always brought up. Arguments about the things we have been acquiring from school; it may be about science, arts, etc. What's interesting is, everyone contributes about the topic that we are arguing about. As we savor more and more liquor, the more we talk and talk about the topic as deeper as we can get. We even find it good to study together while drinking but before doing that we should have finished reading about it before coming to the session for the arguments.
I love the author Apuleius (a North-African) for what he wrote about knowledge and drinking: "There is a famed saying of a wise man about the pleasures of the table: 'The first wine-bowl quenches thirst, the second begets jollity, the third stirs up desire, the fourth sends mad.' But the bowls of the Muses have an opposite effect. The more you drink and the stronger the drought, the better is it for the good of your soul. The first bowl, given you by the elementary teacher, rescues you from ignorance; the second, proffered by the teacher of literature, sets you up with learning; third, brought by the rhetorician, arms you with eloquence." He himself was hungry for more and more knowlege. Yes, we got wasted everytime we drink but the knowledge we learned will never be taken from us. What we are doing is just another way of having fun while learning. It eases us to speak of the things inside our minds and loosens up everything.
As Apuleius further said, "These three draughts are enough for most men (bowl of Muses). But I have drunk other cups at Athens: the Imaginative draught of poetry, the clear one of geometry, the sweet one of music, the austere one of dialectic, and the nectar of universal philosophy, of which one can never have enough." This brought me back to what Paul posted, we can never have enough about knowledge and our brains will never get filled with things; but it is through knowledge that we will understand and will make us care and love.
Not all of us in this world is given a chance and have the priviledge to acquire knowledge we learn from school. For those who have, we should share and pass it on. The contentment of being a good student is to be a good teacher someday. We learn and understand and therefore we can teach things to anyone.
But some would say, "Enough about going to school". Many would surely like to have fun only and leave knowledge aside. Well, when I was still an undergraduate student I gained wisdom and had fun both at the same time. Even up to this very moment, I still love acquiring knowledge (hence I enrolled back to school) and still have some fun (I still drink and hang out with my friends) at the same time. I clearly remember moments with my friends everytime we drink. When people will get tipsy a little an argument is always brought up. Arguments about the things we have been acquiring from school; it may be about science, arts, etc. What's interesting is, everyone contributes about the topic that we are arguing about. As we savor more and more liquor, the more we talk and talk about the topic as deeper as we can get. We even find it good to study together while drinking but before doing that we should have finished reading about it before coming to the session for the arguments.
I love the author Apuleius (a North-African) for what he wrote about knowledge and drinking: "There is a famed saying of a wise man about the pleasures of the table: 'The first wine-bowl quenches thirst, the second begets jollity, the third stirs up desire, the fourth sends mad.' But the bowls of the Muses have an opposite effect. The more you drink and the stronger the drought, the better is it for the good of your soul. The first bowl, given you by the elementary teacher, rescues you from ignorance; the second, proffered by the teacher of literature, sets you up with learning; third, brought by the rhetorician, arms you with eloquence." He himself was hungry for more and more knowlege. Yes, we got wasted everytime we drink but the knowledge we learned will never be taken from us. What we are doing is just another way of having fun while learning. It eases us to speak of the things inside our minds and loosens up everything.
As Apuleius further said, "These three draughts are enough for most men (bowl of Muses). But I have drunk other cups at Athens: the Imaginative draught of poetry, the clear one of geometry, the sweet one of music, the austere one of dialectic, and the nectar of universal philosophy, of which one can never have enough." This brought me back to what Paul posted, we can never have enough about knowledge and our brains will never get filled with things; but it is through knowledge that we will understand and will make us care and love.
Not all of us in this world is given a chance and have the priviledge to acquire knowledge we learn from school. For those who have, we should share and pass it on. The contentment of being a good student is to be a good teacher someday. We learn and understand and therefore we can teach things to anyone.
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
The Essentials
Fire
The sun is up
The moon dropped
Vanish this coldness
Oh highness of light
Cease the darkness of our sight.
Water
Luna's smile shines
Luring poseidon's kingdom
The crystal water of divine
Kisses the cheeks of the million sands.
Earth
Its seed of life gives birth
To this world we call earth
Brave and tall it stands in might
Mortals breathe through its hands
Give this planet the rock they'll stand.
Air
King of storm, King of thunder
As the wind to thine is under
Twist the air, bend it to thy command
Breath and give life to this land.
The sun is up
The moon dropped
Vanish this coldness
Oh highness of light
Cease the darkness of our sight.
Water
Luna's smile shines
Luring poseidon's kingdom
The crystal water of divine
Kisses the cheeks of the million sands.
Earth
Its seed of life gives birth
To this world we call earth
Brave and tall it stands in might
Mortals breathe through its hands
Give this planet the rock they'll stand.
Air
King of storm, King of thunder
As the wind to thine is under
Twist the air, bend it to thy command
Breath and give life to this land.
Sunday, June 19, 2011
The Rainbow in Me...:)
The colors that comes out after the rain
The color your eyes contain
The song for the City of Angels
JOnathan Swift's Gulliver's Travel
NOra roberts favorite subject in her NOvel
The land with a mythology whose goddess was called MOrrigan
The Greek Goddess- the messenger of the Olympians
BUt me? I am a person that can probably add color to your life..:)
The color your eyes contain
The song for the City of Angels
JOnathan Swift's Gulliver's Travel
NOra roberts favorite subject in her NOvel
The land with a mythology whose goddess was called MOrrigan
The Greek Goddess- the messenger of the Olympians
BUt me? I am a person that can probably add color to your life..:)
The Love for Sophia
I am currently reading this book entitled "The Queen of the Sun" by E.J. Michael. I bought it from Booksale Bookstore at a very cheap price of Php 25.00. I was stunned at the cover's image, more of its art and got curious of the content, so decided to buy it. Despite the fact that the last money I had was only Php 40.00, even confused how to survive for three more days with only Php 15.00 left, the urge to read again is more powerful than worrying on how to survive with only this much left.
Last night, I started reading the book and can't hand it down. I am fascinated with the values and wisdom it tries to convey to me. I was so amazed on how the author presented the interconnected existence of life forms here on earth and earth itself to each of us. He was able to describe the lessons about relationships, existence, and purpose. My conscious thought of having environmental advocacy is of little compared to the knowledge and wisdom the book has given me so far (as i am not done reading it yet).
The exemplary existence of man as the highest being living, can both lead to the destruction and growth of what was given to us by the Divine being. The stewardship and the intelligence that we have are gifts from Him who knew and built everything. Every single goodness must come from us but it is mostly the opposite thing that is happening today, every single unit of chaos comes from us instead.
We forgot about the essence of love by giving and not counting what we receive. We are hesitant of sharing because we fail to trust and to be trusted. We are so conscious on what we can get and are never contented and happy of what we have. The spirit of being true and strong to our self council always bends with what we think is better which is mostly not.
In general, we thought of owning everything around us. These things are not ours, we are only care takers of these. We owe to give goodness, for everything we see around are products of His goodness and love to us. The privilege and gift of knowledge given to us is remarkable but we fail to seek what it is for and we fail to reciprocate the love Sophia had provided us.
It is a sad reality but never too late to embrace again what was originally our purpose in this earth, in this universe. Life should exist because we are there to defend it from dying and not to submit life to the what is worldly death. We seek knowledge, we abuse its power, and we fail to nurture it.
The book rekindled something inside me. The values and wisdom I got from the book are mere reminders (even if it is a book of fiction) to reflect about how I can possibly contribute to the energy of positivity that fuels good life. I can always start with searching again what was my real self council and would try to stick to it and be strong about it. Few quotes I love most (which are written under each chapter's title) are the following:
1. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
2. Our fears are like fences, we must jump over it to explore new territories.
3. Not only are the best things in life free; they are priceless.
4. Those who talks with God, are most worth listening to.
5. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
6. Wisdom has two parents: joy and sorrow.
7. No man ever fell in love because he was good at it.
8. The greatest treasure one may find, are truths eternal of the mind.
9. A miracle is love made visible.
10. Love is eternal, those who love never dies.
I derived to few conclusions as my reflection reading this book and these are:
1.The journey to knowledge should always lead to wisdom,
And wisdom is knowledge used with no bad or ill intentions.
2. The essence and art of giving invites blessings to come to us without even knowing about it coming.
3. Everything is interconnected that we should be responsible and be sensitive to anything.
4. Anger, fear, greed and doubts can consume us and can cloud our natural enlightened decisive gift.
5. Love is a phenomenon we can never measure.
Last night, I started reading the book and can't hand it down. I am fascinated with the values and wisdom it tries to convey to me. I was so amazed on how the author presented the interconnected existence of life forms here on earth and earth itself to each of us. He was able to describe the lessons about relationships, existence, and purpose. My conscious thought of having environmental advocacy is of little compared to the knowledge and wisdom the book has given me so far (as i am not done reading it yet).
The exemplary existence of man as the highest being living, can both lead to the destruction and growth of what was given to us by the Divine being. The stewardship and the intelligence that we have are gifts from Him who knew and built everything. Every single goodness must come from us but it is mostly the opposite thing that is happening today, every single unit of chaos comes from us instead.
We forgot about the essence of love by giving and not counting what we receive. We are hesitant of sharing because we fail to trust and to be trusted. We are so conscious on what we can get and are never contented and happy of what we have. The spirit of being true and strong to our self council always bends with what we think is better which is mostly not.
In general, we thought of owning everything around us. These things are not ours, we are only care takers of these. We owe to give goodness, for everything we see around are products of His goodness and love to us. The privilege and gift of knowledge given to us is remarkable but we fail to seek what it is for and we fail to reciprocate the love Sophia had provided us.
It is a sad reality but never too late to embrace again what was originally our purpose in this earth, in this universe. Life should exist because we are there to defend it from dying and not to submit life to the what is worldly death. We seek knowledge, we abuse its power, and we fail to nurture it.
The book rekindled something inside me. The values and wisdom I got from the book are mere reminders (even if it is a book of fiction) to reflect about how I can possibly contribute to the energy of positivity that fuels good life. I can always start with searching again what was my real self council and would try to stick to it and be strong about it. Few quotes I love most (which are written under each chapter's title) are the following:
1. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
2. Our fears are like fences, we must jump over it to explore new territories.
3. Not only are the best things in life free; they are priceless.
4. Those who talks with God, are most worth listening to.
5. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.
6. Wisdom has two parents: joy and sorrow.
7. No man ever fell in love because he was good at it.
8. The greatest treasure one may find, are truths eternal of the mind.
9. A miracle is love made visible.
10. Love is eternal, those who love never dies.
I derived to few conclusions as my reflection reading this book and these are:
1.The journey to knowledge should always lead to wisdom,
And wisdom is knowledge used with no bad or ill intentions.
2. The essence and art of giving invites blessings to come to us without even knowing about it coming.
3. Everything is interconnected that we should be responsible and be sensitive to anything.
4. Anger, fear, greed and doubts can consume us and can cloud our natural enlightened decisive gift.
5. Love is a phenomenon we can never measure.
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